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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the study The Next Three days is a 2010 American drama film that is directed and written by Paul Haggis. This movie takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. This film has duration one hundred and twenty two minutes, it uses English Language. Paul Haggis was born in London, Ontario, Canada, 1953. He is a USA director. He gets many awards. Paul Haggis is the award-winning filmmaker (2004). This movie gets academy awards for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay (2004). Besides as a director, he is also as a producer, a writer, such as: In the Valley of Elah and also The Next Three Days. This film tells a story about a husband that tries to save his wife from judgment of killing woman. But he knew that his wife is innocent, that is why he wants to save his wife with all cost. It tells about John Brennan, Lara Brennan and Luke. John and Lara Brennan, and his brother Mick and wife Erit are out to dinner and it is not going well. Erit and Lara are fighting over whether it is a good idea for women to work for other women and it turns into a real nasty verbal cat fight. Lara has just had a big fight with her boss. After that John and 1 Lara head home. Next morning, Lara injects herself with insulin. As she is getting ready, she notices a spot on her rain jacket and is washing it out in the sink - just as she realizes that is blood, the police storm in and arrest her for the murder of her boss. John tried to save his wife, but he could not. Three years later, John is a community college teacher who is teaching English. He tries to manage his job and raising Luke by himself. His wife was in the Alleghaney County jail (Pittsburgh). John always comes to see Lara in the prison. He always tries to do any possible things to prove that his wife is innocent. His wife’s lawyer keep trying to find more evidence. But one day, the lawyer told John to give up on her wife, because it was impossible to save his wife. The evidence was only a button pop from the person that bumped with Lara in the parking lot. John is very angry and decides to get another lawyer. Then John tells to Lara about his conversation with the lawyer. Lara can not face that reality and then she attempts to suicide. During the next three months, he resolves to spring her out and leave the country and starts to make a plan. He gets library books about prison life and how to escape. He meets with Damon Pennington, a person that ever escaped from prison seven times who gave him some tips. He has 15 minutes to get out of the centre of the city and 35 minutes to get out of the metro region, in this case, Pittsburgh. He will need three passports, a social security card that will pass a credit check and drivers licenses. He will also need money to live off because without money he will have no 2 friends. He needs a foreign getaway such as Yemen that only a few tourists came to that place. Pennington told him to look for ways to break the jail routines. Pennington also says that if he does this, he must decide that he is a guy who is willing to shoot a guard and run over a lady with a stroller, and if he is not, then he does not start because he will just get someone hurt. John starts to investigate the weaknesses of the prison. He observes the jail everyday and takes a picture of the jail. He also tries to get fake ID’s by buying some illegal drugs from the drug dealer in the street and asks them to make a fake ID’s. One dealer directs him to a noisy bar to see another guy, but he gets beaten and robbed. Then he is back to his house. When he washes his blood from his face, someone knocks the door. He sees some man standing in front of his door. That man offers to make him a fake ID’s. It costs three thousand and nine hundred dollars. John agrees with that. After that, in the afternoon, John and Luke walk in the park. He meets with a woman named Nicole, a divorced woman with a girl about Luke’s age. Suddenly, they are in conversation. Then Nicole gives John a birthday invitation to give to his son, Luke. It is her daughter birthday party. John searches a video on the internet about how to make a bump key. He tries to make a bump key, but it gets jammed when he tries to use it in a practice run on the jail elevator. He tries to move it, but the key breaks off in the lock. The jail sergeant interrogates him, he denies by the elevator (the surveillance video was not clear). He is 3 throwing up when he walks out of the jail. The cops who investigated his wife see him throw up and go visit him at his house, but he does not answer it. John actually wants to sell his house to get some money that is why his house si empty. He often leaves Luke with his parents over the weekend. John is upset his mother does not seem to believe Lara is innocent. When he is observing, he notices a medical van visit the jail. He reads on the internet “how you can use a tennis ball with a hole in it to open a car door”. While the driver is in inside a building, he breaks into the vehicle, photos a copy of Lara's blood work. At home he takes the blood work report so that Lara's glucose level looks dangerous. Then john buys a gun. In the following day, Luke and John come to see Nicole and her daughter at a park again and they invite Luke to the daughter's 7th birthday party. When they were in conversation, Nicole asks John to bring his wife too. Finally, John admitted his wife is in jail for murder. Nicole feels sympathy for what happened to his wife. John tells about the story behind the case of his wife. Nicole trusts to John that his wife is innocent. After that John and Luke went back home. Suddenly, John has a phone call from Lara that she is being moved to a prison in three days. John house has no t been sold yet. But he has to find a lot of money before he manages to escape her wife from prison. Then, he drives his car to the bank 4 parking lot. He wants to robe the bank. When he wants to get inside in the bank, he sees a woman with her kids. Then he suddenly cancels his will to robe the bank. Thinking back in the day when he observed the drug dealer on the street, he plans to robe the drug dealer boss. So he follows the red Dodge Challenger car that always collects the money from the drug dealer. After they arrive in the boss house, John brakes in and they have a gun shoot fight. The man who collects the money gets shot by the boss. Then John is able to take down the boss by a shot on the boss chest. He finally gets the money. When he wants to run away, the man who collects the money is still alive. He asks John to take him to the hospital and John agrees. John’s car back lamp breaks because he is in a hurry. On the way to the hospital, the man that John brings is dead. He leaves the man on the transit bench. The next day, the police come to the scene and find the piece of the back lamp and the dead body of the man on the transit bench. After that, John comes to his parent’s house to pick Luke up. His parents tell to him to get inside the room. His dad notices a letter and a passport on his coat that he left in the chair. Then his dad gives a hug to John to let him knew that he had his blessing. In the morning John and Luke pack up. John takes down his planning wall collage and puts one garbage bag in the neighbor's bin, the other down the street. John is brake into the medical van with Luke in the car, swaps Lara's blood work results, cuts the phone lines at the lab. John drops Luke two hours 5 early at the birthday party, he needs to run some errands. He tells Nicole that Luke's grandparent's phone number is in his jacket, in case John is late. At the hospital, a doctor sees the lab report and tries to call the lab for confirmation, but they get a busy signal. They decide to transport Lara to a hospital. Lieutenant Nabulsi is supervising the detectives who investigated the murder for which Lara was convicted and also the murders of the drug dealer. The view the charred meth lab house. The cops find the broken tail lamp lens. Six Prius are registered to felons including a murderer and a rapist. Murderer is incarcerated. Rapist is out. Rapist is in a wheel chair.

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